The national electricity grid will remain prone to collapse due to the government’s inability to repair a crucial transmission line in northern Nigeria owing to persistent insecurity. This is according to the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who spoke during the 2025 budget defense session with the Senate Joint Committee on Power, reports C...
The Minister of Communications, Innovations, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, is currently meeting with representatives of telecommunications companies to discuss pressures to increase telecom tariffs in the country. Our correspondent gathered that representatives of major telecom companies such as MTN Nigeria, Airtel, Globacom, 9Mobile, and...
•Tinubu The federal government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has announced immediate measures to address the high cost of food in the country. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, announced this on his official X account, stating that there will be a 150-day duty-free import window fo...
•Nathaniel Bassey and US President-elect Donald Trump Renowned Nigerian gospel artiste and pastor, Nathaniel Bassey, is set to minister at the prestigious Presidential Inaugural Prayer Breakfast of President Donald Trump, Nathaniel Bassey took to his Instagram social media page yesterday, Saturday, January 4, 2025 in a post announcing his perf...
•Late Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani The Afghan Minister for Refugees was killed yesterday in a suicide bombing at the ministry’s offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack. Taliban authorities had already blamed IS for the “cowardly attack”, which a government official ...
The embattled vice-chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof. Benard Odoh, today called on the Federal Ministry of Education not to be desperate in trying to set the institution on fire or attempting to usurp the powers of the courts before whom there are multiple lawsuits on the matter and shouldn’t run into conclusions without evidence. ...
•Tinubu (L) and Wike (R) A member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Segun Sowunmi yesterday said President Bola Tinubu is his party’s main problem. Sowunmi, former Ogun PDP governorship candidate, stated this on Channels Television last night. He also faulted the appointment of former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, as FCT Minister, sa...
•Yusuf Ata The newly appointed Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Yusuf Ata, has said his mission is to deliver Kano State to the All Progressives Congress in 2027. The development came as the immediate-past minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Tijjani Gwarzo, faulted the decision to choose Ata as [&...
•Service chiefs The federal government has bemoaned non-sharing of classified information and intelligence among law enforcement agencies, saying such development could hinder efforts to reduce crime. It, however, cautioned all the security agencies against the approach, warning that the country could not afford to continue employing such a st...
•Health minister, Prof. Mohammad Ali Pate Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammad Ali Pate, yesterday stated that current statistics reveal that over 3.6 million Nigerians are diabetic and 53% of these citizens undiagnosed. The minister, who disclosed this in Abuja at the 2024 National Sugar Conference on Sugar S...
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